fate shall decide

Chapter 7 - Should she know

As the taxi pulled up to the apartments I wiped my wet face with my sleeve and sniffled. I had to act like I was happy. I paid the taxi driver and I stepped out into the street. I saw myself in the mirror that was in reception I looked terrible, my eyes were bloodshot and sore and my cheeks were bright red and blotchy. I tried to smile and if anyone asked I had hay fever. I wait for half a hour and then finally Leah came running in to the reception area. I stood up and hugged her. " You smell right nice where you been and whose clothes are they" she said. I smiled and tapped her nose " so noisy, so many questions" I said. Leah then stepped back, shrugged her shoulders and said " whatevs". I laughed same old Leah she was completely fine why had I been so worried.

As we stepped into our apartment Leah sniffed. " It doesn't smell different and it doesn't look different are you sure you have been staying here "she said puzzled. I nodded " of course where else am I gunna go" I laughed nervously. She lower her eyebrows and a slight scowl came onto her face she was definetly suspecting something. She hummed to herself and then once again shrugged her shoulders. I bit my lip she would know I haven't been here if she asked room service. As she scampered around I just thought to myself at least we are both fine and that's the main thing.

I felt sick again. what was wrong with me. I leant over and ran to the toilet. Leah came up behind me and grabbed the piece of paper that was sticking out from my pocket. " whats this then " she said angrily. I gasped and then spun back around to be sick. Next thing I knew Leah was dialing the number on her phone. I prayed in my head please don't answer please don't answer. There was no answer. " He will be at work you should have just asked me hes called Jamie" I said with a shudder and a hint of relief in my voice. Leahs face dropped and then she placed her phone in her pocket " i'm sorry I was just curious we don't keep secrets remember". I nodded and put my arm round her. We just sat in silence for a while and then Leah said " can we go get a macdonalds or summin like that". I smiled " oh my god yes lets go". We raced to the door and down the stairs and out the hotel. We would only be about 10 minutes so I left it unlocked nobody would know right.

We sat at macdonalds and I asked Leah what had happened with her and Aaron last night. Her reply was " we made love and I really think we could be together forever he said he could help me transfer to America or he could transfer to England". I raised my eyebrows and nodded maybe he was just a genuine guy wanting to have a good healthy relationship. Finally we finished and Leah pulled out her ipod and snapped a selfie of us both it went traight on snapchat, twitter, instagram and facebook of course at least my mum would know I was safe and then she wouldn't moan or scream at me when I got back because I didn't "make a effort" to contact her. I chuckled at my minds impression of my mum. Finally we packed up what we had left and what we had brought then made our way back to the apartment. We had been a little longer than I expected but I was sure we would be fine.

I unlocked the apartment and Leah ran straight in first and straight into her bedroom. I walked straight over to the window to stare at the view and day dream once again. I also wanted a picture with Leah and the view so we could have the memory forever. I got my camera from my bag and set it up ready. I spun round to get her but what I saw stopped me in my tracks. Leah was already in the room with me but there was also a man dressed in black with a knife to her throat. " scream and she dies" he said. I gasped and my jaw dropped. I couldn't move and then I blacked out....